Pennsylvania legislators have taken the radical position of passing a law forcing schools to teach something beneficial to students. It’s a shocking development after decades of promoting useless subjects that left the nation’s students lagging behind the rest of the world.
After years of social justice education curricula that accomplished nothing but leave over 60% of the state’s students lacking proficiency in mathematics and nearly half unable to pass English standardized testing, high schools in the Keystone State will now be required to teach a financial literacy course that students must take to graduate. The law will go into effect beginning with the 2026-27 school year, according to the Philadelphia Inquirer.
“No offense to biology teachers or calculus teachers, but this class is going to be information they are going to use every day of their life,” Republican state Sen. Chris Gebhard said. He’s the legislator responsible for the bill’s proposal and getting it across the legislative finish line, the Philadelphia Inquirer reported.
Christian Sherrill, director of advocacy for Next Gen Personal Finance, a nonprofit organization that encourages high school students to “take a semester of personal finance before graduating,” aided Gebhard in putting the new law together. As a result, Pennsylvania will be one of 25 states with a financial literacy requirement when the courses start, the Philadelphia Inquirer reported — a simultaneously shocking and encouraging revelation.
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“We want students to be able to make smart decisions about money in the real world,” Sherrill told the Inquirer.
This is arguably the first bill in decades in the state requiring schools to teach a subject actually designed to help students in the real world. Learning about 73 genders, how men can get pregnant, and how racist the country is is fine for brainwashing students to become future Democratic voters, but it does nothing to help them succeed in life. Teaching students about banking, finances, and credit, however, absolutely will.
